Years ago I read a post on a (ahem) webmaster forum. The premise of the post was that if, for the rest of the author’s life, he could use only one link building method, which one would he choose and why? His answer was guest posting. Anthony Pensabene reminded me that this was still hugely [...]
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Relationship Building and SEO – The Story of an Intern
When I started learning about digital marketing it was through affiliate marketing and thin site SEO. I learned a lot about the technical side of getting rankings, traffic and highly converting advertisements. It wasn’t the best kind of SEO. But none of what I did really required strong relationships. In my struggle to grow into [...]
Search Tips of the Week: How to Hack Content Marketing and Get a Link from The Guardian
This week’s search marketing roundup includes technical hanks for content marketing, an example of how to get a link from The Guardian, 7 tips for finding your competitors’ linkable assets and RCS, a guide to generating rich snippets using Micro Data and Schema.org, as well a video on 6 ways to use fresh links and [...]
Only Hustlers Get Rich, The SEO Strategy Edition
How long have you been in SEO? Long enough to have some stories, I imagine. Pushing berries, re-bills, blog networks, link everythings, cloaking and stuffing keywords. Remember when you cared about keyword density? How many times did you have to close that one webmaster forum as your boss walked by because of the pictures? How [...]
Search Tips of the Week: Social Media ROI and the Content Idea Generator
This week we highlight ways to measure social media ROI (a topic of discussion at last night’s Inbound Marketing Toronto event), Portent’s content idea generator, 50 things every content marketer should know, types of links that matter and how to get them, an interview with a Google+ power user, as well as today’s SEOMoz whiteboard [...]
The Shift of Inbound Marketing in 2013
Are you getting sick of reading everyone’s predictions for 2013 yet? Well, I promise you, you won’t feel like “this is 10 minutes of my life I’ll never get back”. Instead, you’ll feel invigorated and ready to go forth and do SEO battle…I hope. I want to share my thoughts on the way I think [...]